I'm trying to get the hang of POE and followed this tutorial on perl.com: Building Applications with POE.

Problem is when I try the code used in the tutorial (copy & past, the download doesn't work) it only works partially.

The TCP-server starts up, accepts connections but after entering a test string ('foo=bar&quux=perl') and hitting enter it stops with this failure message:
Can't call method "put" on an undefined value at ./tcp_server.pl line 110.

Problem is the method put is called with a defined value, Data Dumper gives this:

$VAR1 = {
          'quux' => 'perl',
          'foo' => 'bar'
        };
$VAR1 = 2;

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Code snippet (line 110 is the $_HEAP part)

sub client_input {
  my ($input, $wheel_id) = @_[ARG0, ARG1];

  use Data::Dumper;
  
  print Dumper $input;
  print Dumper $wheel_id;
  
  $_[HEAP]->{clients}->{ $wheel_id }->put( $input );
}

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Complete code can be found here: Orchid's scratchpad
Help much appreciated (if you need more information let me know!).

In reply to POE method problem (building applications with POE) by Orchid_NL

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